SSH GITHUB 密钥

Question

I'm new to developing with GITHUB on a mac. I have created the SSH public and private key files and have the public key in the settings on git hub. I moved the files to the ~/.ssh folder on my mac.

The issue is that when I try to push to the remote branch, I get an access denied.

Jims-MacBook-Pro-2:romannumeralconverterAPI jrieck$ git push --set-upstream origin master
Enter passphrase for key '/Users/jrieck/.ssh/id_rsa': 
Enter passphrase for key '/Users/jrieck/.ssh/id_rsa': 
ERROR: Permission to jrieckPillarTechnology/ArabicToRomanNumeralAPI.git denied to deploy key
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.
Jims-MacBook-Pro-2:romannumeralconverterAPI jrieck$ 

Any thoughts on the reason for the access denied error?

Answer 1

It sounds like you've set up your key as a deploy key, which are by default read-only. The idea behind a deploy key is that you can have an automated system use that key to access a specific repository for the purpose of deploying it to production. You can read more about why deploy keys are useful in the GitHub documentation .

If you're going to be using this key with your account as a human, not for an automated process, you probably want to remove it as a deploy key and instead add it as a key for your account, as described in the GitHub documentation for adding an SSH key . Note that you'll need to remove the key as a deploy key first; if you don't, you won't be able to add it as a key for your account.